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Sietch Nevada: A city for a water-poor world (2009)(matsys.design)
1 points by artsytrashcan 3y ago|0 comments
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
I have this condition called a recurrent corneal abrasion. Basically, my eyelid occasionally adheres to the skin on my eyeball and rips it open when I open them too quickly after waking up. It is very painful. The only thing that helps is a
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
What is the balance of driers with 4-years full time seniority vs employees in progression and part-timers/seasonal workers? Essentially, you didn't answer the question.
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
Accepting this logic: a top-end figure tells you nothing about the nature of the progression to get there. In particular, it doesn't say anything about the relative conditions on each step of the progression, nor (again) about how many
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
It really isn't. State - really, conservative party - antipathy to Twitter is well-known. This antipathy was instigated by Twitter's role in incubating several large, progressive movements over the past decade: the Arab Spring, Bl
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Ask HN: As a tech worker, have you worked a “low-skill” job outside of tech?
7 points by artsytrashcan 3y ago|5 comments
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
That's not a huge range - a handful of missed answers - and, I believe, lower than it used to be. I distinctly remember being, at 1490, in the bottom quartile of "Harvard-bound scores". Without any proof, I imagine that Harva
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
You don't really need them. An "average top rate of $49/hr" is like saying that the average top salary for a SWE is $500,000/yr. Great number; now, who is actually making it, and how many of them are there? Because
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
"Fair" does not mean "central, between horrible and tolerable". >That's obviously not feasible Your curt dismissal belies that it's actually not just feasible, but a necessity. I would like to see UPS spend
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
*Elon and whoever he owes favors to and/or is influenced by. (Owing favors and being influenced by others is a normal human person trait thing.)
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
The Microsoft decision was based on dominance of a particular portion of the computing industry, x86 CPU-based PCs, not "computers, mobile devices, or VR". The equivalent here is passthrough-capable spatial computing devices runni
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
The answer to that is simple: it was worth more to them destroyed than as an intelligence asset.
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
This is spin on a bad agreement. I hope the workers reject it and push for more.
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
I don't think so. The air conditioning bit was a big point*, and it doesn't look like they've moved at all since June. The deal says they'll put AC in vehicles purchased from 2024 forward, but no retrofits except for a &
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
>I could understand this if it was acquired and then heavily censored This has happened. Impression count has been decimated for anyone without a check. Bonus points if you've ever blocked Elon or posted with a sentiment he disagr
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
It's analogous to the MS/IE/Netscape situation 20 years ago. They would lose/have to settle on similar grounds, I suppose.
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
My high school language was Japanese. Attempting European languages in adulthood, I'm always thrown off by the object-verb order. My brain subconsciously skips over the action, hears the object and then is left waiting to hear what we&
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
AFAIK Japan is a high-trust, high-context society. It is difficult to break into social groups or make new acquaintances, while the infrastructure necessary for living a "solitary" existence (supported by service-providing strange
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
If you're adventurous, I have a like-new DDR mat that's been sitting in a storage unit.
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
That's not necessarily true. People have borrowed against higher land values and built more expensive housing with higher-end finishes. That was the whole "flipping" craze; the contents of the house were literally worth more
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
Tear the entire thing out and replace it. You have to understand that housing (separate from land) isn't so speculative in Japan, however; a "worn out" bathroom is likely in a house that's going to be torn down completel
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
https://fortapro.com/wc-and-bathroom-pods These guys? (If so, then, woah, this is the first time in literally years that Google Search has successfully returned a first-result win.)
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
And PP only profiled one company. It's almost certainly being perpetrated by others. The company my own property manager uses once boasted in their promotional literature that using their software boosted prices 15% when compared to co
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
"New development" covers a wide range of development types . Most of the types that are "allowed" to be developed - per regulation, public investment, what does and doesn't trigger the NIMBY predatory instinct - ar
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
They're slowly ruining the vibe. Several stations raised the intensity of the lighting, painted the cement coffers, changed the warning lights from yellow to red, and some have even replaced the iconic floor tiles. The new trains in ge
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
Well, I did say "partially." I think we're all operating under a dysfunctional paradigm, Great Man or whatever. You say he wasn't that bad, I say he was worse, you say, "Don't complain about Vandal Savage becau
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
His influence has been largely detrimental to the quality-of-life of countless people, and Paris gives thanks every day that his plans for it were never fully realized. In a sense, he's partially at fault for every person who suffered
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
I tend to think that Habitat 67 is more successful in all regards.
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
Some of the worst hires come through word-of-mouth referrals, too. That's how you get unqualified nepotism hires. In fact, networking can be thought of as a form of nepotism or cronyism (depending on how touchy a given person is about
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
Consensus seems to be that "straight out of high school" is an advantage, and not one all of the people who are interested in the work can partake of.

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